I wanted a small cnc lathe to cut motorcycle wheel spacers. I have a Boxford VSL500 manual lathe that I use for bigger stuff so something small was fine.
I'd had a couple of wide Hiwin rails and a single THK rail along with a couple of small C5 ballscrews hanging about for a long time. So I finally decided to make use of them.
This was a bit of a scrap bin project so there was no CAD design work, I just started to put it together.
Trying to figure out initial dimensions etc:
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I'd had a couple of wide Hiwin rails and a single THK rail along with a couple of small C5 ballscrews hanging about for a long time. So I finally decided to make use of them.
This was a bit of a scrap bin project so there was no CAD design work, I just started to put it together.
Trying to figure out initial dimensions etc:
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